West High School - Senior Occident Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Class History A class history, though it may look comparatively easy, is really quite a difficult task. In the first place it is hard, when you have once started, to tell just where to stop. Then a historian with any modesty docs not like to dwell too long on the glories of his particular class or to go into too lengthy a discussion of the reasons why and wherefore his class should be used as an example for all other classes following. I will try, as far as I know how, to be both modest and truthful. If one could have been standing in front of the school about the second week in September, in the year nineteen hundred and six, he would have seen many of the present Senior Class entering the school for the first time. We were then leaving a comparatively narrow sphere of life forever, to enter one much broader than any yet experienced, because in high school we learn more both of book lore and of the ways of the world and we come into contact with more people. Then, too, the teachers on thisr higher plane of knowledge give forth more of their per- sonality or their inward self than is possible in the grade schools. But, after all, high school is but a step in the ladder or, we might say, a term in the proportion of knowledge because high school is to grade school as college is to high school. I believe Mr. Fultz would call this a mean proportion. But I must stop this wan- dering and get down to business. As a class, nineteen hundred ten was never very successful as far as winning is concerned. 1 can honestly say, however, that every team that represented the present graduating class went into all contests to do the best they could to uphold the honor of the class and they always fought to the end. The first team that ever played under the name of nineteen hundred and ten was the Freshman football team. Our team played the Juniors and, though they greatly outweighed us, we held them down to two touchdowns; but I will not write too long about football lest I bring up fond memories of that grand old game which will never again be played in West High. However, the spirit which characterized the Freshman football team is the spirit which has dominated every team that has ever fought under the nineteen hundred and ten banner—the spirit of going into the game, not necessarily to win but to put forth the best that each fellow had in him. We never came out ahead in any contest until our Senior year in which mi far, we have won everything. There were no inter-class football games last fall